NFL Salary

Pay vs Performance

Detroit Lions roster · each player vs his own position market · APY basis · updated 2026-07-29

Contracts

Lens

Whole roster on one map · no position filteringRole (snap share) exists for every position

Roster contracts

Roster APY

$353.8M

Rookie-scale deals

Top-quartile deals

League median APY

$1.5M

Market read

19roster contracts rank above their position market's median in both pay and role.

0top-quartile contracts here sit in the bottom half of their market's role.

1below-median contracts return top-quartile role in their markets.

Pay vs role

Lions roster · 53 contracts plotted · each vs his own position market

Snap-share percentile

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League median payLeague median roleRole ahead of payPremium starterLow-cost depthPay ahead of role

Goff

Dorsey

Clark

Mahogany

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Pay percentile (APY)

Veteran dealRookie scaleLimited sample

Biggest rank gaps

Detroit Lions roster · role lens · gap within each position market

Role ahead of pay

+72

Christian MahoganyG

PAY 96

ROLE 24

$1M

98.2% snaps

Rookie scale

+72

Thomas HarperS

PAY 140

ROLE 68

$947K

59.3% snaps

Rookie scale

+69

Mekhi WingoDT

PAY 119

ROLE 50

$1.1M

47% snaps

Rookie scale

+57

DJ WonnumEDGE

PAY 93

ROLE 36

$3M

68.4% snaps

One-year

+50

Sam LaPortaTE

PAY 53

ROLE 3

$2.4M

90.7% snaps

Veteran

+34

Brian BranchS

PAY 56

ROLE 22

$2M

95.6% snaps

Veteran

Pay ahead of role

-97

Khalil DorseyCB

PAY 90

ROLE 187

$1.6M

2.8% snaps

Veteran

-50

Dominic LovettWR

PAY 154

ROLE 204

$1.1M

1.8% snaps

Rookie scale

-45

Kerby JosephS

PAY 2

ROLE 47

$21.3M

87.5% snaps

Veteran

-42

Christian IzienS

PAY 57

ROLE 99

$2M

19.6% snaps

One-year

-38

Tom KennedyWR

PAY 127

ROLE 165

$1.2M

12.5% snaps

One-year

-37

Malcolm RodriguezLB

PAY 56

ROLE 93

$2.8M

17.9% snaps

One-year